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Context CollapseBook

by Ryan Ruby

Who uses, recommends or left Context Collapse, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.

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Adam Tooze
Economic historian at Columbia; writes Chartbook on economics, geopolitics and history, and wrote Crashed and The Deluge.
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Um it's called Context Collapse. And it is literally a poem containing a history of poetry. So it is an extraordinary long- form poem in which he in a I was asking about it over drinks the other night. Why did he do it? It's this delirious effort to write in poetry a history of the form and the collapse of its context in modern culture. It's truly a tour of the force.

Answering The Ezra Klein Show's closing question, three books to recommend, in “How the World Sees America, With Adam Tooze” (https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-adam-tooze.html). Quoted from the episode's YouTube auto-captions.

2026-01-30·youtube.com ↗

Every entry is a verbatim quote and a link to the public post it came from. Nothing is paraphrased. If it is not on record somewhere public, it is not here.

The verdict is what they actually said: loved and liked are explicit; recommended means they told others to get it; uses means they only say they use it; read is a book on their public shelf with no verdict; mixed and disliked are kept too.

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